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Specific Neck Rehabilitation for Unilateral Headache and Neck Pain, and Structural and Functional Changes in the Brain

NCT02908984 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 57

Last updated 2025-05-04

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Summary

In part 1 of the project clinical effect of specific neck rehabilitation for unilateral headache and neck pain (also termed cervicogenic headache) will be compared with standard primary health care. The researchers will further study whether fear avoidance beliefs and self-efficacy predict long term neck function and headache frequency superior to active range of neck movement. Part 2 will investigate whether patients with cervicogenic headache have structural changes in cerebral grey and white matter and in connectivity of the resting state state network, and whether these are reversed after effective neck rehabilitation and correlate to symptom severity and degree of disability.

Conditions

  • Cervicogenic Headache

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Specific neck rehabilitation

Guided craniocervical, axioscapular and proprioceptive training that includes education, postural exercises, as well as training of cervical and shoulder muscles, and vestibular rehabilitation, included oculomotor function if indicated, and general exercises

OTHER

Standard primary health care

The treatment may include pharmacological medication, chiropractic and physiotherapy or no active treatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Health

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Tromso

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gunnvald Kvarstein, PhD · UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
25 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-31
Primary Completion
2025-12-31
Completion
2025-12-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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